Working for the EU: How to Get In 2024 edition

This highly practical book is essential reading for anyone wanting to know about the many ways to get a job and build a career in the EU public administration.

This 2024 edition has been fully updated to take account of major developments such as the new format of EPSO competitions, the increased availability of internal competitions, and important trends in the types of jobs and career pathways available.

Working for the EU: How to Get In 2024 explains:

• The wide range of positions in the EU institutions and agencies, in Brussels, Luxembourg and (increasingly) elsewhere

• The many types, advantages and disadvantages of permanent and temporary posts

• How temporary posts can become stepping stones to permanent or very long-term jobs

• The critical difference between being selected and being recruited – and how recruitment really works

• The little-known alternatives to passing an open competition

• The value of stages and other types of traineeships

• The crucial importance of ‘being there’ and building your networks

• Why and how you should think strategically, keeping as many options open as possible

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. So, do you want to work for the European Union?

2. The EU civil service: the permanent officials

3. Where do European Union staff work?

4. Temporary staff: Temporary Agents and Contract Staff

5. Temporary staff: the other categories

6. Getting to ‘Brussels’

7. Getting a stage (traineeships/internships)

8. Narratives and networks

9. Getting in: climbing Mount Everest

10. The EPSO open competition: the classic ‘South Col’ route

11.Internal competitions (the ‘North Col’) and other routes

12. Trends and future prospects

Index